Steamport Southport Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 If you have a model Portillo, then for political/gender/diversity balance should you not have a model Diane Abbott too? I would have thought a Jeremy Corbyn sitting on the floor of an empty train. You could use a garden gnome instead. Jason 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 (edited) Len McCluskey, anyone? I can sort of see the potential in a Modelu "Awkward Squad" range. Edited July 21, 2018 by Horsetan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 21, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2018 Fortunately, my layout is based in 1957/8 when Portillo would have been just starting at primary school. Therefore any young kid in a school uniform could conceivably be regarded as him on a day out with his mum. I think it would have to be an Eton uniform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Here are some differently-coloured Portillos: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 BoD Amazing. He's got longer, and more shapely, legs than I'd imagined. Not that I've spent any time imagining his legs. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 (edited) I think it would have to be an Eton uniform. Harrow, not Eton. But it was the local grammar, not the public school, that he attended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_High_School Edited July 21, 2018 by ejstubbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 (edited) I suppose for 1972 I could have a John Betjeman. If you have a 3D printer you can print off his St Pancras statue... https://myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-john-betjeman-at-saint-pancras-station-london-18466 (And the station to put it in.. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:326773 ) Edited July 29, 2018 by monkeysarefun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 I think I'd have to have him printed rather smaller than 130mm high; I don't think he was in excess of 30 foot tall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 I think I'd have to have him printed rather smaller than 130mm high; I don't think he was in excess of 30 foot tall. So I found this picture here of him handily standing in front of a brick wall and was then able to scale him to actual John Betjeman size and print him off at 00 scale... 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Here are some differently-coloured Portillos: Colour coded for your gender specific needs! I wish I was joking... C6T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 If you have a model Portillo, then for political/gender/diversity balance should you not have a model Diane Abbott too? Xxxx no, my layouts only for nice things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 21, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 21, 2018 Colour coded for your gender specific needs! I wish I was joking... C6T. OK pink for the girls, blue for the boys but whats the green one for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougN Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 (edited) Ooow phil.... is when the boy is not a boy but a girl or a girl who is... well you get the idea.... I have seen the new blue signs for the toilets they really confuse... But on all my building sites we only seem to have a ladies toilet... still smell as bad! As the sign can easily slid from male to female...and vis a versa... they always end up on female. Even when there is only 12 blokes on site... Edited September 21, 2018 by DougN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 .... but whats the green one for? The transient? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul80 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Colour coded for your gender specific needs! I wish I was joking... C6T. If Facebook's gender identification list is anything to go by, you would need 57 different colours. No wonder the kids today are so confused and screwed up. Should social media carry a government health warning, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium The White Rabbit Posted September 22, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 22, 2018 OK, so you get green by mixing blue and yellow, so I can identify that group. But orange comes from red and yellow... I have a feeling I might regret this, showing my ignorance in company, but go on, which group's that for? Do you get that many fake tan celebrities on building sites? Proposed new signature: Maybe I need to get out more, but sometimes when I look at the world, I think 'why bother?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul80 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 And they are as cheap as chips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 “No wonder the kids today are so confused and screwed up.” Evidence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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